What is the Maafa?
April 19, 2026
Mark Matthews was the oldest of the legendary Buffalo Soldiers. Born on August 7, 1894, he was 111...
Thomas Johnson was born enslaved at Rock Raymon, Virginia. Johnson spent the first twenty-eight years of his life—until...
Susie King Taylor was the first Black Army nurse, who tended to an all-Black army troop named the First South Carolina Volunteers, 33rd Regiment, during the Civil War. As the author...
Abbey Lincoln was an African American jazz singer, actor, and civil rights activist. Proclaimed “the last of the...
Bill Richmond was an African-American boxer, who was the first Black professional boxer to gain international recognition. Richmond...
Theodore “Tiger” Flowers was the first Black boxer to win the world middleweight championship. Flowers was born on August 5, 1895, in Camilla, Georgia. Often referred to as the “Georgia Deacon”...
Anna Murray Douglass is best known as the first wife of Black abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Born as a...
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the...
Louis Armstrong, known as Ambassor Satch is considered the most important improviser in jazz. Armstrong was a trumpeter, bandleader, singer, soloist, film star and comedian. Considered one of the most influential...
Robert Purvis was a radical African American abolitionist and reformer as well as a prosperous gentleman farmer and...
James Arthur Baldwin was an African American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, who is considered to...
“All I have tried to do is to tell their story. Sometimes, moved deeply by such damnable acts of prejudice, I have allowed the words to cool and then I know...
Meserette Kentake, founder of Kentake Page, was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, and is of Yoruba descent (mtDNA). Now based in London, she holds a BSc in Counselling Psychology but is most passionate about…
